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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
To me it seems DRM is currently being used for two purposes; one that makes total sense and one that doesn't. DRM used to assure protection of copyrights and to assure that authors and publishers get fairly compensated for distribution of their books, even in ebook format, I have no problem with. Used to allow ebook distributors to force people to use only the ebook viewer that the distributor sells doesn't.
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DRM is useless for copy protection and preventing illegitimate uses of the content. That's just the reason they claim they use it in order to get people to accept it. The real thing DRM is meant for is controlling what their legitimate customers are allowed to do with the content. It's an attempt to strip what are otherwise legal consumer rights.
For example, DRM is much more effective at taking away fair use and first sale rights of legitimate customers than it is at preventing piracy.